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Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

In the midst of continuing economic growth, we are seeing signs of a possible future slowdown in the Commonwealth’s economy. June’s Leading Economic Index for Massachusetts was down nearly a percentage point from its May level, and consumer confidence fell moderately in the same month. In the labor market, there is evidence that inflationary pressures may be building.

Obviousness And New Technologies, John Kasdan

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Department Of Mathematical Sciences Newsletter, Fall 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Department Of Mathematical Sciences

Newsletters from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UM

9/9/99: Memorable Date for a Memorable Conference / Mark Kayll -- Girls need cyberplay too, says scientist / Gary Jahrig -- Notes from the Chair’s Desk / Jim Hirstein -- New Faculty -- 1999 Summer Conference on Brauer Groups / Nikolaus Vonessen -- Math History Project Announced / Johnny Lott -- Department Loses 70 Years of Experience: Gloria C. Hewitt and Don Loftsgaarden / David Patterson and Rudy Gideon -- Summer MAT Courses / Libby Krussel -- Alumni News -- Figure This! A Mathematics Program for Families / Johnny Lott -- Magic Square -- 1999 Mathematics Scholarship and Award Winners …

Fall 1999, Mary Beth Hinton

Newsletters from University Library - Library Connection

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Is Anybody Still A Realist?, Jeffrey W. Legro, Andrew Moravcsik

Political Science Faculty Publications

Realism, the oldest and most prominent theoretical paradigm in international relations, is in trouble. The problem is not lack of interest. Realism remains the primary or alternative theory in virtually every major book and article addressing general theories of world politics, particularly in security affairs. Controversies between neorealism and its critics continue to dominate international relations theory debates. Nor is the problem realism’s purported inability to make point predictions. Many specific realist theories are testable, and there remains much global conflict about which realism offers powerful insights. Nor is the problem the lack of empirical support for simple realist predictions, …

The Hilltop 10-1-1999, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 1990-2000

No abstract provided.

The Silent Witness, October 1999

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

The Silent Witness Finding Aid

Comment: Enabling Public Service, James Clotfelter

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Critical It Role In Healthcare: National Agenda, Applications, And Technologies, Jack Corley, Warren Karp, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

We share a widely-held vision that tomorrow's health care will be delivered by a distributed team using a knowledge based process that is focused on prevention and wellness. Caregivers will be able to treat and monitor patients where and when needed, capturing data as a natural byproduct of care delivery. Clinical teams with a wide range of skills and expertise will deliver consistent, quality care based on timely, situation-specific knowledge and guidance derived from outcomes evidence. That same knowledge will support advances in healthcare research and education. Home care and remote medicine will increase, reducing the need for high-cost hospitalization. …

Efficient Support For Decision Flows In E-Commerce Applications, Richard Hull, Francois Llirbat, Jianwen Su, Guozhu Dong, Bharat Kumar, Gang Zhou

Kno.e.sis Publications

In the coming era of segment-of-one marketing, decisions about business transactions will be quite intricate, so that customer treatments can be highly individualized, reflecting customer preferences, targeted business objectives, etc. This paper describes a paradigm called “decision flows” for specifying a form of incremental decision-making that can combine a myriad of diverse business factors and be executed in near-realtime. Starting with initial input, a decision flow will iteratively gather and derive additional information until a conclusion is reached. Decision flows can be specified in a rules-based manner that generalizes so-called “business rules” but provides more structure than traditional expert systems. …

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Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Editorial Board

Cal Poly Magazine

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University News

Cal Poly Magazine

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Class Notes

Cal Poly Magazine

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Land Grant University Information Delivery Through Automated Telephone Message Services In The United States, Debby Newman

Journal of Extension

At least 15 states have offered information delivery through prerecorded telephone messages to answer repetitive questions. The public's response in different states varies from less than 100 to over 50,000 inquiries per year. Factors that determine usage include marketing, population, and availability of current scripts. States have shared scripts and a few have combined audio services with adjoining states. In response to the United State's 11% Hispanic Latino population, some are translating scripts into Spanish. To contain costs, a network could be formed. This group could share subject matter, communication needs of emerging populations, and marketing and product ideas.

Making Our Nonpoint Source Pollution Education Programs Effective, Robin Shepard

Journal of Extension

Educational programming is a common part of most watershed protection projects, but education strategies vary greatly from project to project, and from educator to educator. The amount of information and the way it is delivered also varies. Educational programming provides information to landowners in order to encourage environmentally beneficial action, such as the installation of best management practices. Education strategies, especially those that seek to reduce nonpoint source pollution from agriculture, generally rely on a combination to two approaches. The first uses diffuse communication campaign methods to disseminate information, somewhat randomly, over a wide area. The second comprises one-on-one information …

Transferring Poultry Information To The Public Using The Internet: Aviannet @ Purdue University, Mickey A. Latour, Ryan A. Meunier

Journal of Extension

This article describes the impact of AvianNet, a web site designed to aid the dissemination of information from the university to county educators and poultry producers. Educators most frequently use the site (33%), compared to poultry producers (19%). The number of phone calls regarding poultry needs to the authors' offices has decreased by ten-fold compared to a similar period before the inception of this project. It is believed that this decrease is a direct result of the extensive poultry database. County educators who would have previously called the authors' offices can now search under the web site's "publication" section. Direct …

The Cross-Border Insolvency Concordat And Customary International Law: Is It Ripe Yet?, David H. Culmer

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The importance of flexibility in international insolvencies is clearly demonstrated by the United States Bankruptcy Code. Section 304, governing cases ancillary to a foreign proceeding, provides that the court may, among specific forms of relief available to a foreign representative, "order other appropriate relief.' 2 This provision has been interpreted quite liberally, affording bankruptcy courts freedom to "broadly mold appropriate relief in near blank check fashion."3 While flexibility may not demand fair, predictable, and efficient results, it should at least allow for such results. Though probably true for most insolvency proceedings, either in reorganization or liquidation, this is perhaps nowhere …

Political Corruption: Free-Flowing Opportunism, Claire Moore Dickerson

Connecticut Journal of International Law

From the first reading, I have been captivated by Robert Wade's descriptions of corruption in southern India, and in particular by his description of the relationship between the government engineers in charge of water distribution and the farmers.' I was struck by how familiar that dance between the engineers and the farmers felt. Wade writes of government engineers who rake off substantial bribes from the farmers they serve. Sometimes the farmers pay the engineers to gain assurance that the water to which they have a right will be forthcoming; sometimes the farmers pay the engineers to gain water to which …

Computer Multimedia In The Development Of Interactive Courseware: The Cornell University Soil And Water Management Learning Module, Charissa Sullivan

Theses

The thesis project consists of an interactive multimedia computer software program, designed to help teach a course title, college-level semester course in soil and water management (Soil and Water Management, offered at Cornell University, Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences course number 321, 4 credithours). The software was authored in Macromedia Director 6.5. Original artwork includes computer graphics some of which are sequenced to create animations that illustrate key concepts of the subject material. Text and photographs and/or illustrations also support the subject material.

1999 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes For Fall Semester, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for Fall of 1999, retrieved from the 2002 website.

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 1999, Office Of Institutional Research

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic majors provide a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of the selected enrollment and demographic statistics arranged by fall term and fiscal or academic year as appropriate.

Ohenmaa's Role In Ashante My Experience & View On Community, Michelle Castro

African Diaspora ISPs

My writing touches upon the different roles of Queenmothers. By no means is it an in- depth look into her role in different regions of Ghana, but concentrates on her spiritual, traditional role & presently changing role in Ashanti. A chapter is also given to Yaa Asantewaa. The second component of my project consists of photographs that convey the symbolism of unity and show how interconnected the community is to the institution of Ashanti Chieftaincy on an everyday basis.

Art And Symbolism In Ewe Religion: Ritual Objects Of The Yewe And Tro Mami Worship In Klikor, Ghana, Coleen Wright

African Diaspora ISPs

This project investigated the symbolism represented through art in the Yewe and Tro Mami Worship in Klikor, Ghana. The research questions were what are the symbols expressed through art of the two religions and how do these symbols serve the religions. In order to do this I conducted informal interviewing, participant and non participant observations on several different occasions. Through this I was able to learn about the various relics and the function that they play in worship. The material I collected suggests that art symbolism play a vital role in religion.

Traditional Birth Attendants In Modern Ghana A Discussion Of Maternal Health Care, Emily Kennedy

African Diaspora ISPs

Ghanaian women have been delivering their own babies for almost two thousand years now, using knowledge passed down from their elders and medicines prepared from herbs. It has only been in the past one hundred years that scientific medicines and institutions have been introduced to this country, yet more and more individuals are turning to these doctors and hospitals for care before, during and after pregnancies. The role of traditional birth attendants, (TBAs), has begun to be questioned as well as attacked for its more religious and holistic approach which is resulting in a growing schism between the TBAs and …

Board Of Trustees Minutes, October 1, 1999, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Wcsa Alumnews: Fall 1999, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Alumni Relations

WCSA AlumNEWS

Contents Include: Holiday greetings to all faculty and alumni of WCSA!; Third Annual Winter Reunion; Class News - Clip & Send; WCSA Alumni Garden Update; Funding for WCSA AlumNews; Former Faculty News; New name and new staff for West Central Experiment Station; Alternative Swine Program; Roger and Barbara Larson Sponsor a Named Garden; Several special demonstrations at Horticulture Night '00; Class of '60: mark your calendars for your 40th reunion!

The First Folio, Fall 1999, Illinois State University, Department Of English

The First Folio

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of English

All Eyes Forward: Public Engagement And Educational Reform In Kentucky, Molly A. Hunter

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Whalesong 1999-10-01 (V.21 No.1), N/A N/A

Whalesong

No abstract provided.